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My students and I came to think of their web development designs as being informed by the content of the academic work those designs would contain. The design for the present hypertext is similarly informed by its content. Take the title, "#FFFFFF, #000000, & #808080," for example. #FFFFFF is the hexadecimal value for white. In this hypertext, white represents the purity of theory. #000000 is the hexadecimal value for black. Here, black represents the encumbered reality of practice. This project is ultimately about what it is like to teach in the space between theory and practice, represented in the title by a standard hexadecimal value for gray, #808080. This idea is represented visually on the index page (and the inner pages) as a gray swoop running from the white heavens of theory to a grounding in the black of practice.

In the website for my Spring 2003 Web Authoring class, I used the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet) to visually delineate sections of the course website. I set these color splashes against an otherwise black, white, and gray palette. Wanting to establish visual continuity between my course website and "#FFFFFF, #000000, & #808080," I decided to carry that color palette into this hypertext.

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